Could Napster Be Nicked?

Judson Smith Myers English 1101 Paper 1 9/13/2000 Could Napster Be Nicked? Recently, Napster, Inc., the online song sharing company came very close to being shut down for copyright infringement. I believe that it would be a mistake to shut down these online, song-sharing, companies as they provide a number of benefits to society. Some examples of these benefits include exposing listeners to a wider variety of music and not limiting their listening to one or two particular …

…again and they are getting turned on to new music also. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Works Cited Reuters. “Napster isn’t affecting CD sales.” ZDNet News. 28 August 2000 <http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2620842,00.html> Hiatt, Brian. “RIAA Sues Napster, Claiming ‘Music Piracy.” Sonic.Net All News. 8 December 1999. http://www.sonic.net/news/archive/story.jhtml?id=569952 Cohen, Jonathan. “Napster To Block Metallica Infringers From Service.” Billboard.com: Music News. 4 May 2000. <http://www.billboard.com/daily/2000/0504_03.asp>